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Top 100 Goalies of All-Time
In our annual Collector's Edition, we countdown down the Top 100 goalies of all-time and tell the story of each. It's 140 pages packed with everything about the game's best masked men.
TOP 100 FUTURE GOALIES
RANGING FROM THE 1,266 games Martin Brodeur played in the big pads to the 7.6 seconds Jorge Alves recorded as an emergency goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2016-17, a total of 786 players have suited up and stood in the crease in at least one regular-season game in NHL history. When you consider the best league in the world has been around for more than 100 years, that number seems a little low, no? But it does explain why you may have been surprised by some of the names that made the cut on our top 100 NHL goalies ranking. The point here is there’s a lot of room for others to push their way onto the list in the coming years. When we redo this list 10 or 20 years…
94. GUY HEBERT
BORN Jan. 7, 1967, Troy, N.Y. NHL CAREER 1991-2001 TEAMS StL, Ana, NYR STATS 191-222-56, 2.81 GAA, .909 SP, 28 SO THEY JUST DON’T make stories like Guy Hebert’s anymore. Hailing from upstate New York and playing his NCAA hockey at out-of-the-spotlight Div. II Hamilton College, Hebert nonetheless found himself drafted by the St. Louis Blues in 1987. He was a first-team all-American with the Continentals and, a couple years later, he guided the International League’s Peoria Rivermen to a Turner Cup championship. But Hebert’s halcyon days came in Anaheim. The first pick by the Mighty Ducks in the 1993 NHL expansion draft (which also involved the Florida Panthers), Hebert was a stalwart for the fledgling franchise in its early days. Hebert still ranks second in wins (173) and games (441) by an…
92. ILYA BRYZGALOV
BORN June 22, 1980, Togliatti, USSR NHL CAREER 2001-15 TEAMS Ana, Phx, Phi, Edm, Min STATS 221-162-54, 2.58 GAA, .912 SP, 34 SO ALL-STAR 1 (Second-1) STANLEY CUPS 1 IT’S TIME TO PLAY the Ilya Bryzgalov Word Association Game. Quick, select the phrase that matches him best: “Stanley Cup winner.” “Vezina Trophy runner-up.” “Humungous big.” We all know the answer is “Humungous big.” Bryzgalov holds the Arizona Coyotes’ single-season wins record at 42. He’s third among all Russian goaltenders in NHL career games, wins and shutouts. He finished top-10 in the league in save percentage three times. Yet his off-ice exploits dwarf anything he accomplished wearing a mask and pads. Bryzgalov was already a top-shelf goalie by the time HBO camera crews arrived in the Philadelphia Flyers dressing room to film the hit 24/7 series during…
3. MARTIN BRODEUR
BORN May 6, 1972, Montreal, Que. NHL CAREER 1992-2015 TEAMS NJ, StL STATS 691-397-154, 2.24 GAA, .912 SP, 125 SO ALL-STAR 7 (First-3, Second-4) TROPHIES 5 (Vezina-4, Calder-1) STANLEY CUPS 3 FOR THOSE LUCKY enough to have seen Martin Brodeur in his prime, two aspects of his game stood out. There was his combination of elasticity and quickness, almost inexplicable in a 6-foot-2, 220-pound goaltender who was occasionally called pudgy by frustrated, undiscriminating opponents. The classic example was his “scorpion” save on Marian Gaborik of the New York Rangers in Game 2 of the 2012 Eastern Conference final in which Brodeur made a blind stop by kicking his right leg in the air while on his stomach diving out from the crease. And there was Brodeur’s precision positioning, a trait he perfected with…
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